Industry Warns EtO Sterilizers Risk Review Threatens Wider Disruptions

Business groups are warning that EPA’s second “residual risk” review conducted as part of its rule tightening air toxics limits for commercial sterilizers using ethylene oxide (EtO) is unlawful and sets a dangerous precedent for other air rules using “massive, open-ended authority” to impose new regulations across many sectors. In amicus briefs filed Oct. 25 in California Communities Against Toxics, et al. v. EPA, et al. , a consolidated suit now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...